Word Origin & History

bunk "sleeping berth," 1758, probably a shortened from bunker, Scottish for "a seat, bench," of uncertain origin, possibly from a Scandinavian source (cf. O.Swed. bunke "boards used to protect the cargo of a ship").

Example Sentences for bunk

Deming was in his bunk; also another man, whose ribs Lund had cracked when he had kicked him along the deck out of his way.

We laid her in Sim's bunk, and Flora was as tender with her as though she had been a baby.

Night after night, stretched out wearily on his bunk, the sordid picture of Lumpy Joe's returned to him.

I was just down watching her—she's asleep in Cap'n Sinnett's bunk.

I was given a bunk at the extreme end of the long sleeping-tent, and turned in with the rest.

I'll bet a hat he was taking it all in, lying there in his bunk, 'turned the other way.'

"I can't sleep for thinking about those stars," he said, sitting on the edge of my bunk.

It might have been either of those two star failures in the bunk house.

He was wadding his bunk with the hay, while the others looked on rather enviously.

Will you go down to the men's huts and see if there is a bunk where we can put him?